Shanmugam Either Doesn’t Know or Deliberately Misrepresents the Meaning of Rule of Law
By ordering nine individuals to apologise and publish a correction after they posted a Mothership article that had misleadingly edited Shanmugam’s Parliamentary speech during the Foreign Interference (Countermeasures) Act debate, […]
FICA Makes Singapore a Laughing Stock and Firmly Puts Us in the North Korea and Belarus Camp
In 2008 when he founded the Reform Party, JBJ famously asked the question whether the citizens of Singapore enjoyed any more freedom than the people of Belarus and North Korea. […]
It’s Back to the 1970s as Lee Hsien Loong Demonstrates Nothing Has Changed
The last week has brought a distinct feeling of deja vu. Firstly, we had the decision to close Yale-NUS, which was spun as economic but was clearly a political decision. […]
When Will Heng Swee Keat and Lee Hsien Loong Be Prosecuted for Wounding My Racial Feelings ?
Today a man, “Sirajudeen Abdul Majeed, 52, was given two weeks’ jail and fined S$7,000 on Monday (Feb 8) for two charges of knowingly promoting feelings of ill will between […]
As Singaporeans Increasingly See the Light, the Arc May Be Starting to Bend
I have frequently accused Lee Hsien Loong and his family of corruptly using state resources to stay in power and promote his and his wife’s financial interests. Of course he […]
Enough Already with the Hypocrisy and Lies, Lee Hsien Loong!
Dear Mr Lee Hsien Loong, In a Facebook post on Tuesday 10 November, following your Minister Shanmugam’s Parliamentary statement on the Parti Liyani case you said: Building a democratic society […]
Did Shanmugam Breach the Constitution When He Discussed the High Court Judgement in the Parti Liyani Case?
Article 99 of the Singapore Constitution states: The conduct of a Judge of the Supreme Court or a Judicial Commissioner, a Senior Judge or an International Judge of the Supreme […]
You Don’t Have to Believe Shanmugam Pulls the Strings to Know That the PM Has Too Much Influence Over the Judiciary
Yesterday I read that M. Ravi is being investigated by the police for criminal defamation. He posted on Facebook on 6 November that Eugene Thuraisingham, another lawyer in whose firm […]
Shanmugam Abuses Parliamentary Privilege to Retry and Convict Parti Liyani
As promised in October, Law Minister Shanmugam delivered a statement in Parliament yesterday on the Parti Liyani case. I have previously written extensively about it here, here here, here and […]
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